About Dispel Magic...

[Trainz]

Greetings, two questions please:

1) Will Dispel Magic banish creatures summoned by an enemy caster ?

2) The Break Enchantment spell can dispel Flesh to Stone and other certain things, things that cannot be normally affected by a Dispel Magic. However, can Break Enchantment also behave like a Dispel Magic (i.e. Dispel anything covered by the spell Dispel Magic, but at a max bonus of +15 instead of +10) ?

These came up during our last game session...


Thanks for your input.


Trainz

 

[Dr. Zoom]

Greetings, two questions please:

1) Will Dispel Magic banish creatures summoned by an enemy caster ?

Yes. If you target one of the summoned monsters, you roll against the spell that summoned it, according to the spell description.

2) The Break Enchantment spell can dispel Flesh to Stone and other certain things, things that cannot be normally affected by a Dispel Magic. However, can Break Enchantment also behave like a Dispel Magic (i.e. Dispel anything covered by the spell Dispel Magic, but at a max bonus of +15 instead of +10) ?

These came up during our last game session...

Not exactly. It is superior to dispel magic in many ways, but it is not a replacement to Greater Dispelling.

 

[kreynolds]

That's funny...I just noticed that Remove Curse (Clr 3) automatically removes item curses, whereas Break Enchantment (Clr 5) only has a chance to do so. Heh, never noticed that before.

 

[twjensen]

Greetings, two questions please:

1) Will Dispel Magic banish creatures summoned by an enemy caster ?

2) The Break Enchantment spell can dispel Flesh to Stone and other certain things, things that cannot be normally affected by a Dispel Magic. However, can Break Enchantment also behave like a Dispel Magic (i.e. Dispel anything covered by the spell Dispel Magic, but at a max bonus of +15 instead of +10) ?

1) Yes. The dispel can be targetted at the summoning spell.

2) No. Break Enchantment works only on enchantments, transmutations, curses and petrification. So it breaks spells like polymorph other. It does NOT work against abjuration, so many defensive spells are immune. It does NOT work against illusion. It does NOT work against conjuration. You get the idea